My goal for this week was to build some consistency into the legs as I continued to work back after the setbacks over the past few weeks. This had mixed results, with the beginning of the week being definitely more frustrating than how I managed to finish up.
Monday saw me decide to only stick to the 5m route that sees me run on the track between the Canning River and the Freeway from Salter Point and across Manning Bridge. I had aimed to keep my pace around the 6 minutes per km as a good starting point to ensure that I didn’t cause any additional soreness in to my abdominals after the strain that had occurred. Overall, I was satisfied with how a pulled up, however I notice an increase in tightness in my left calf. This caused some concern as this is a muscle that I have had some difficulty with over the past ten years and was concerned that I might end up straining it if not careful.
In reflecting on why it was so tight I think it is not to do with running at all, but rather from the way I have found me sitting either when working at my desk or at home on couch. I have been crossing my legs on a specific angle that has been pressing on the specific part of my calf – this will be a habit that I need to break.
The tightness resulted in me taking Tuesday off running. This is an unplanned move as originally I had hoped to increase the distance to 10km for this and my Thursday run. Instead, the remainder of the week I remained at the 5km distance – hopefully next week I will be able to return to some longer distances, possibly looking at a 12km run on the Monday and Friday, 10km on Tuesday and Thursday with a 5km on the Wednesday. If this goes ok, I will look at increasing distances again in the following week. I’m still working towards hopefully completing a 19km run in the next few weeks.
So far, this challenge I have managed to run 205.3km of the 700 that I was hoping to achieve and I have 50 days left to complete it in…I’m still fairly confident that I can get there – it will just take a little bit of additional push due to the injury setbacks!
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